Newsletter: Bettors Insider, Vol. 1, No. 19 3/7/19
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More sports betting coming to Valley Forge
If only it would have been there during George Washington's day, the time would have gone much faster.
But I digress. The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board has approved its eighth location for sports betting, giving Greenwood Gaming (owners of Parx and the South Philly Turf Club) the okay to take sports bets at the Valley Forge Turf Club. They'll be competing in Valley Forge against Boyd Gaming's Valley Forge Casino.
Both facilities should be up and running in the next few weeks.
Full story here.
Spring training betting gets OK in NJ
New Jersey's Division of Gaming Enforcement tossed Major League Baseball's request to prohibit betting on spring training games.
Fuller story here.
Bettor Bits
- @BobCooney76 tweeted: 34 players have scored 30 or more points against the Sixers this season in 65 games.
Stat Line of the night
Soccer: Europa League Futures
'Game of Thrones' odds get a surprise
Still not sure how you can take bets on something which has already happened and so many people know the result, but . . . the director of "The Favourite" didn't win the Oscar.
Today's Schedule
- 9 am - Boop updates the Countdown to 68 for the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. We're down to 312.
- 9 am - Boop also updates Catching the L-Train and lists Philadelphia's 2,000 point scorers.
- 10 am - Sean Miller's soccer picks.
- 10 am - Robert Mims on how Bryce Harper's signing impacted sports betting.
- 10 am - Chris Garrity on horse racing from around the U.S.
- 10 am - Boop's Single Digits (BoopStats for the digital attention span) (Single Digits will also give you an early peek at Boop's Quickie Quiz, which posts at noon on Twitter @BoopStats.)
- 1 pm - 5 pm - NHL, NCAA and NBA Basketball picks.
- 6 pm - Boop's Philly Props pick.
- Also Neal Abrams' Men's singles Tennis picks for Indian Wells.
Wednesday Results
Pretty good day. Greg Frank continued blazing through the NBA with two more wins, Craig Dietel won his NHL pick, Neal Abrams went 2-0 in early women's singles action at Indian Wells and Mark Eckel split his two NCAA picks. Chris Garrity was hurt by scratches, but had a first and a second in his three races with runners.
We'll try to do better today.
Good luck at the tables, windows, kiosks and apps.
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